The TOZ 82 was a combination pistol/flareshooter/shotgun carried to space on (first) Soviet and (later) Russian Soyuz spacecraft. They were carried for years on every manned Soyuz, to the MIR space station, and to the International Space Station; until, one day, they weren't.
Great article on it out today. Here's a link: How I Stopped Cosmonauts From Carrying Guns was published today in IEEE Spectrum. Written by veteran space journalist James Oberg he tells the story of this novel sidearm.
Is this something that's been discussed here on Firing Line Forums previously? I couldn't find any thread discussing it.
Moderators: I hope this is in the correct forum, and that I've handled the link and very brief quotation from the article correctly. If not, feel free to move it (since it is identified as a sidearm, but apparently had some rifle-ish and shotgun capabilities as well, it was unclear to me where it would fit in).
Edited to make the title a bit more clear
Great article on it out today. Here's a link: How I Stopped Cosmonauts From Carrying Guns was published today in IEEE Spectrum. Written by veteran space journalist James Oberg he tells the story of this novel sidearm.
"the standard Soyuz survival pack included a deluxe all-in-one pistol called the TOZ 82 with three barrels and a folding stock that doubled as a shovel and contained a swing-out machete. There were a few dozen rounds of three types of ammunition—rifle bullets, shotgun shells and flares—in a belt attached to the gun."
Is this something that's been discussed here on Firing Line Forums previously? I couldn't find any thread discussing it.
Moderators: I hope this is in the correct forum, and that I've handled the link and very brief quotation from the article correctly. If not, feel free to move it (since it is identified as a sidearm, but apparently had some rifle-ish and shotgun capabilities as well, it was unclear to me where it would fit in).
Edited to make the title a bit more clear
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